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[dislocked]

3 questions.

1. What is the mortality rate?

2. Who enforces discipline?

[ You can learn a lot about the culture of a ship through its rules. He rules out HYDRA -- they're usually more cruel and efficient than this. Here, he and the others are animals in a trap, at the mercy of unknown entities powerful enough to draw and keep all of them in here. He doesn't give voice to these thoughts.

Eyes and ears in the walls, in these devices -- he doesn't trust them, his paranoia is his greatest asset. ]

3. Where and when were you from, at the moment you were taken?

Comments

[whatdidisay]

1. Only if you end up dead, and only sometimes. You don't... come back right, at least not in the cases I've seen.
2. Pretty much. It's like Beta Colony back home, everyone gets a vote.
3. Officially? The Barrayaran Empire -- but that includes the planets of Komarr and Sergyar. So just Barrayar works.

[dislocked]

1. How so?
2. And who administers what comes next?
3. You have never heard of Earth, then.

[whatdidisay]

1. Cryoamnesia for my cousin. Don't know about everyone else.
2. Hell if I know. It's complicated and I haven't done anything to land myself in a position where I'm gonna find out.
3. Just spent a year there, embassy duty in London. But the planet itself doesn't really matter much anymore, except as the place where humanity began.